Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 News from Germany By Jutta Lenz This year the sales in the garden centres are compared to the bad last year only by 1% plus. Fruit and vegetable garden is doing well but nursery garden is very difficult this year – only fruit trees are running good. The buying resistance […]
June 2015: Update from Denmark
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Report from Denmark By Steen Vinkler After a cold wet spring, the sun is now shinning here in Denmark and we are really looking forward to welcoming you all to the IGCA Congress August 9th-14th. This year’s spring has been very difficult for the Danish garden centres. We have […]
September 2015: IGCA Board Member Perspective
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 IGCA Board Member Perspective By Stepan Smerda At the last IGCA meeting I received the honour of being elected to the board of IGCA. I’m glad to be a member of a group of people, with whom you can talk openly about plans and ideas that have yet to […]
September 2015: Report from Australia
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Australia Down Under By Leigh Siebler Australia has kicked into spring with a reasonable yelp despite quite poor weather. Victoria had its coldest winter for 26 years but we are still very optimistic. The Aussies who went to the Denmark Congress enthused about it and I know […]
September 2015: Update from Ireland
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Update from Ireland By Fergal Doyle Garden retail is mostly gearing up for Halloween and Christmas now and Autumn has turned out to be very slow with sales mainly due to a lack of momentum coming from a poor summer. Despite this the industry and country in terms […]
September 2015: Update from Czech Republic
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Autumn greetings from Czech By Michal Ferenčík Summer this year was a big test for us in Czech. We had almost six weeks with temperatures of 35+ degrees. Finally autumn is coming and the beginning of the season is looking good with plenty of customers visiting our centres. […]
September 2015: Update from the IGCA Office
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Update from the IGCA Office By Julia Ricottone It has been one month since we saw each other in Denmark, and we hope you enjoyed your time there as much as we did. Perhaps you brought back some new ideas to use at your garden centre – […]
June 2015: Update from USA
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Ebert’s Gets Customers Excited to Shop with Pre-Spring Tour By Jeff Morey Ebert’s annual pre-spring “behind-the-scenes” tour of its production facilities taps local residents’ pent-up desires to garden and jump-starts sales when the store – located in the Midwestern U.S. state of Wisconsin, in the city of […]
June 2015: Update from Switzerland
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Erwin Shares a Gem in Italy By Erwin Meier-Honegger Imagine a museum at a Garden Centre. Think about displays showcasing the history of horticulture in a beautiful old glasshouse in the calm rear of a busy nursery. A fairy tale? No, someone was able to make her dream become true! […]
June 2015: Update from Canada
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Celebrating Garden Days this June By Julia Ricottone The spring experience has been different depending on where you live in Canada. Those on the west coast have been working in full force since February, central Canada has had a very busy April and May, while the east […]